"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.

Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.

"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"

Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."

This is what happens when you allow Americanism to invade your country.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I look like a tradwife. I'm so stealth I feel like I could drop my voice to do incredible crimes and then just swap back and get off easily

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      I remember a butch lesbian furiously telling me not to grow my hair long because it makes me "look like a removed" when I was younger. How she failed to see how the same thing could be applied to her always baffled me.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      Those people are certainly perplexing, but I think it's worth remembering that the majority of TERFs are straight women (and that's not counting the conservative men who use "protecting our women and girls" as a pretext for transphobia, but don't really believe themselves to be feminists)

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I learned a while back that a lot of actual second wave radical feminists openly and loudly embraced trans women, and even back then, with actual second wave radfems, people were denouncing terfs as fucking assholes.